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Artist
Gilbert Kalish
12+ albums
American classical pianist
about
Gilbert Kalish leads a musical life of unusual variety and breadth. His profound influence on the musical community as educator, and as pianist in myriad performances and recordings, has established him as a major figure in American music making. A native New Yorker and graduate of Columbia College, Mr. Kalish studied with Leonard Shure, Julius Hereford and Isabella Vengerova. He has been the pianist of the Boston Symphony Chamber Players since 1969 and was a founding member of the Contemporary Chamber Ensemble; a group devoted to new music that flourished during the 1960's and 70's. He is a frequent guest artist with many of the world's most distinguished chamber ensembles. His thirty-year partnership with the great mezzo-soprano Jan DeGaetani was universally recognized as one of the most remarkable artistic collaborations of our time. He maintains long-standing duos with the cellists Timothy Eddy and Joel Krosnick, and he appears frequently with soprano Dawn Upshaw. As educator he is Leading Professor and Head of Performance Activities at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. From 1968-1997 he was a faculty member of the Tanglewood Music Center and served as the "Chairman of the Faculty" at Tanglewood from 1985-1997. He often serves as guest faculty at distinguished music institutions such as the Banff Centre and the Steans Institute at Ravinia, and is renowned for his master class presentations. Mr. Kalish's discography of some 100 recordings encompasses clas
top songs
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Halloween
822Ives: Piano Sonata No. 2, "Concord. Mass., 1840-60": Third Movement, "The Alcotts"
473Lied ohne Worte in g minor, op. 19, no. 6, Venezianisches Gondellied (Venetian Boat Song) (1830)
234Piano Variations
195Sonata in E Minor, Hob. XVI:34
196Sonata in B-flat, Hob. XVI:41
157"Emerson"
158"Hawthorne"
159Sonata in D, Hob. XVI:51
1210"Thoreau"
12albums
Charles Ives: Piano Sonata No. 2 "Concord, Mass. 1840"
Joseph Haydn: Piano Music
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Fright Night
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Fright Night: Music That Goes Bump In The Night
Joseph Haydn: Piano Music Volume I
Joseph Haydn: Piano Music Volume III
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Music@Menlo Being Mendelssohn: Disc 5: Mendellsohn: Selected Songs - Schumann: Piano Trio op. 63 - Mendelssohn String Quintet op. 18
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Songs of Charles Ives and George Crumb
Joseph Haydn: Piano Music Volume II
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Music@Menlo 2005 Beethoven: Center of Gravity: Beethoven: Piano Trio - Weber: Quintet - Schumann: Dichterliebe
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Copland - Sextet / Piano Variations / Piano Quartet.
Wallingford Riegger: Music for Piano and Winds